Shrubs for Gardens, Agroforestry and Permaculture

Learn about the incredible range of useful shrubs for many different situations, large and small. World renowned expert, Martin Crawford, reveals favoured varieties of common fruit bushes like currants and gooseberries, and many other less-known shrubs with edible fruits, nuts, leaves, or other parts.


Martin takes us on a journey into the world of exotic spice trees, shrubs with medicinal parts, and plants that fix nitrogen to help fertilise other plants. All these can be grown in temperate climates, diversifying our diets, enabling us to plan and plant beautiful, productive gardens, as well as showing us how we can integrate agroforestry into our smallholdings and farms to create new income streams.


Scientists are urgently calling for carbon emission reductions ... so whether we are a farmer, gardener or plant collector, planting shrubs that lock down carbon in the soil is one of the most effective solutions for mitigating climate change.